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"Earlier today, NASA&#39;s John Grotzinger announced in the most mealy-mouthed way possible that the Curiosity rover had made an &quot;earthshaking&quot; discovery on Mars — a discovery that will be &quot;one for the history books.&quot;\n\nWhat did Curiosity find? We don&#39;t know. And until Curiosity&#39;s data have been double and triple and quadruple checked, it&#39;s going to stay that way. On one hand, this makes sense — there&#39;s absolutely zero sense in blowing the lid off anything less than a painstakingly substantiated claim. But then why say anything at all? If what you&#39;ve found really is earthshaking, then why tease about it like some sort of movie spoiler?\n\nLook. This whole thing obviously has us very excited, but we&#39;re wary. We&#39;re not the only ones who feel this way. If, a few weeks from now, the big reveal is even more evidence of ancient water on Mars, I will personally fly to Pasadena and punch Grotzinger in the brain. Not because more evidence of water on Mars is unimportant or insignificant (Curiosity is a one-ton, six-wheel-drive, nuclear-powered super-laboratory doing science on FUCKING MARS — every single thing it finds is, by definition, a major discovery), but because when most people hear someone say &quot;this is gonna be one for the history books,&quot; they expect news that 99% of the population (i.e. someone other than a geologist) can get excited about.\n\nSo — because speculating about what the rover&#39;s Sample Analysis at Mars instrument has discovered is pretty much pointless, and because it&#39;s infinitely more fun than thinking about the prison sentence I&#39;ll be serving if the announcement is about Mars&#39; watery past — we now turn to twitter for the internet&#39;s best guesses as to what Curiosity has (or maybe hasn&#39;t) found on Mars:\n\nChicken\n\nMars tastes like it.\n\n\n\n\n\n(Emily Lakdawalla is the one who coined the #curiositynews hashtag for predictions about the rover&#39;s announcement. She&#39;s a goddamn hero.)\n\n\nReligion\n\nAliens\n\n(Carcinogenic) Aliens\n\nDefinitely Not a Mind-Reading Alien Slug-Worm\n\nLow-hanging Quips\n\nDa Bears\n\nDisappointment\n\nTwinkies\n\nFar and away the most original prediction we saw today.\n\n"
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